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Henry David Thoreau
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Henry David Thoreau
Age: 44 †
Born: 1817
Born: July 12
Died: 1862
Died: May 6
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There were times when I could not afford to sacrifice the bloom of the present moment to any work, whether of the head or hand. I love a broad margin to my life.
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While the Republic has already acquired a history world-wide, America is still unsettled and unexplored. Like the English in New Holland, we live only on the shores of a continent even yet, and hardly know where the rivers come from which float our navy.
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That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves.
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It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for the law, so much as for the right.
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I never dreamed of any enormity greater than I have committed. I never knew, and never shall know, a worse man than myself.
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The doctors are all agreed that I am suffering for want of society. Was never a case like it. First, I did not know that I was suffering at all. Secondly, as an Irishman might say, I had thought it was indigestion of the society I got.
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Generally speaking, the political news, whether domestic or foreign, might be written today for the next ten years with sufficientaccuracy. Most revolutions in society have not power to interest, still less alarm us but tell me that our rivers are drying up, or the genus pine dying out in the country, and I might attend.
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Solitude is not measured by the miles of space that intervene between a man and his fellows. The really diligent student in one of the crowded hives of Cambridge college is as solitary as a dervis in the desert.
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The Indian navigator naturally distinguishes by a name those parts of a stream where he has encountered quick water and forks, andagain, the lakes and smooth water where he can rest his weary arms, since those are the most interesting and more arable parts to him.
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It is the marriage of the soul with nature that makes the intellect fruitful, and gives birth to imagination
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Good deeds are no less good because their object is unworthy.
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I hate the present modes of living and getting a living. Farming and shopkeeping and working at a trade or profession are all odious to me. I should relish getting my living in a simple, primitive fashion.
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We must have infinite faith in each other. If we have not, we must never let it leak out that we have not.
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Water is a pioneer which the settler follows, taking advantage of its improvements.
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A man receives only what he is ready to receive, whether physically or intellectually or morally, as animals conceive at certain seasons their kind only. We hear and apprehend only what we already half know.
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I came into this world, not chiefly to make this a good place to live in, but to live in it, be it good or bad.
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Should not every apartment in which man dwells be lofty enough to create some obscurity overhead, where flickering shadows may play at evening about the rafters?
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Most of the stone a nation hammers goes toward its tomb only. It buries itself alive.
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The meeting of two eternities, the past and future....is precisely the present moment.
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Love does not analyze its object.
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